hey all I need some advise on my YAESU FT-757GXII It receives and transmits fine on everything except LSB/USB according to a local ham the transmission sounds fine but what I hear is horribly distorted I am kind of at a loss so any advise/ideas would be good.

no actually I have to have the RF gain up atleast halfway to hear anything even local Broadcast AM(normal?) no the other modes sound good as I have been listening to a couple Foreign AM stations on it(better reception than my handheld shortwave)

Ok now the big question how do I check the Ca;ibration cap and trimmer?

You are talking about how far UP you have to turn the RF gain in order to hear something.

I'm asking if turning it down while receiving the distorted ssb transmission has any effect on the distortion, such as alleviating the distortion somewhat, as that may be a useful clue as to which section of the radio to suspect.

If you push the 'Lock' button you can no longer tune to a station. The same applies if you are using a memory channel. You would see this already in your frequency display.

Getting to your question, could you tell us how it all started. Did your rig work fine and then the problem came up? It would be very helpful to know that for analyzing what is behind your observation.

YONO: Not familiar with your radio but it should have CW and SSB positions on the switch. The CW positions are narrow for copying CW and of course the SSB is for SSB voice. If you have a CW-N (Narrow) and a CW-W (Wide) then I have to ask are you trying to listen to SSB while the switch is in the CW-W position?

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